The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-12-31
Written for The Arkdnsdp Traveller. "SoWilg to tle Wind. 7
BY JENNIE PORTER ARNOLD.

"Yes, Maurice, I repeat it-I do be- lieve that an engagement broken as yours has been, is sure to bring severe punishment upon the guilty party p
 "Then the punishment in this case will not fall upon me, for I am not the guilty one. You know Marion broke our engagement"
 Maurice Warland tried to smile and answer lightly, but the shadow in his dark blue eyes showed him not quite 80 much at ease as he would like Cousin Adah to think him.
 "I only know that Marion Herbert has done as any true-hearted woman would, when she saw the love, which was hers by right, freely given to an- other, she cancelled an engagement which she saw you were only too thankful to be released from. No woman, with proper respect, would have done less."
 Maurice shrank uneasily from the penetrating glance of Adah Wayne's dark eyes, but unwilling to confess himself in error, he quickly changed the defense to different grounds.
 "But is it not another of your fa- vorite doctrines that it is sin for two persons to marry without loving each other?"
 Certainly"
 "Very well, then, how do you rec oncile your two doctrines in my case? You say ! was guilty of great wrong in breaking my engagement with Ma rion Herbert, when at that time I had ceased to love her, and really did love May Westbrook."
 Matrices tone was very triumph ant. Surely that argument was uhan- swerable! But Adah did not think SO.
 "In the first place" she said quietly, yet firmly, "you were morally guilty of a serious crime In allowing your fancy to be captivated, and your heart drawn from it's allegiance by pretty face, while you were bound by every tie of manly honor to one whom for years you had professed to love, and, in spite of all your assertions to the contrary, one whom I believe you still love. You have been fascinated by May Westbrook's pretty baby face and artless ways; but it is merely a passing fancy; your heart is still un- touched, for beneath all that the love you once professed for Marion still remains. You may cover it, hide it away beneath the flowers of this new fancy, and try to cheat yourself with the belief that it is dead but it is not, as you will learn to your sorrow {; it may be when it is too late. It is useless" i" she continued, as he attempted to remonstrate, "utterly useless, to at tempt to convince me to the contrary. I have not watched you from your boyheed years, known every thought of your heart, to be deceived now into believing that after once loving a woman like Marion Herbert, yon could forget her, and love as sincerely g simply pretty girl, whose shallow nature could not comprehend, much less sympathize, with the deeper feel ings of man like you. Oh, Maurice '" Adah Wayne's dark eyes were dimmed with tears, and her voice took ten der, pleading tone, @I implore you, by all the tender love we have borne each other through the years that are past, do not slight nay counsel now! Do not ruin the bright prospect of your future by taking this falsc step now in the opening years 0f your young manhood P
 Maurice WarlAnd was deeply touched, for he did love Adah Wayne, the dear cousin, who, in his orphan boyhood hAd taken him to her home and heart, and had been to him ever